The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-07
FLORIDA.

Work will soon begin upon the McCor-
mick University, in West DeFuniak.
Several Jersey cows have been brought
from Tallahassee recently by farmers near
DeFuniak.
Lumber is now being manufactured for
the West DeFuniak Hotel, to be built near
Lake Stanley.
Cross-ties for the Lake Stanley and De
Funiak Springs street railroad are being
delivered on the line.
Hon. C. T. Sampson, of North Adams
Mass, has made the liberal contribution of
$1,000 toward the library for DeLand
University.
The gentlemen who so successfully oper-
ated the fruit evaporator at DeFuniak dur
ing the fruit season are now on the Gulf
coast evaporating fish.
A Nebraska gentleman who is an authori-
tv on bees and their culture, has purchased
property and will establish large bee in
dustry at once near DeFuniak
At st. Augustine a few days since, A. NJ
Lopez, while at work tearing down Mis-
sons building, on st. George street, found
an old fashioned pistol imbedded in the
walls. 1t is of queer design and undoubtedly
OF great age.
Frank Morgan, travelling agent for the
Bradley Fertilizer Company, was quite
SerlOuSIN III DSl1dflu ldSU v,
by fall from horse. The horse stumbled
and threw him over his head and then fell
over OH him. The doctor thinks his injuries
will not prove fatal, and that he will soon
recover.
The st. Augustine improvement Com
pany has had force of men engaged
during the week in demolishing the old
building on st. George street, near Treas
ury. In place of this old landmark the
company will erect handsome and com
| modious brick structure for Mr.. Nilsson, to
be completed in ample time for opening of
the winters business
Summerfeld, heretofore known as Whites
vile, is on the Florida, Railway and Navi-
CATION Company's road, twenty five miles
| southwest of Ocala, and four miles from
Beleview. The residences of the citizens
are one-quarter of mile west of the depot
while the stores are located on the railway
West of the town there is a belt of hum
mock soil and timber unsurpassed in quality
by any found in the county.
The case of the assignee of H. Davis VS..
MUMMY, Stockton 81 Knights attachments
was heard at DeLand before Justice Jack
! son last Wednesday Attorney A. c. Ham
| lin represented the assignee and Attorney
| w. W. Hulst the attaching parties. A YER
dict was rendered which quashed the at
tachments. Mr.. Gooddell, the assignee, has
appointed G. Beardsley to take an inventory
OF the stock now in the store.
At Jacksonville, Monday night about S
| o'clock, jackson Green and Sam Porter, two
Woodworking colored men, were on their
way home when some one fired upon them
from ambush with a shotgun, which was
| evidently loaded with buckshot One of the
| pellets entered Green's right hand on the
outside between the knuckle of the little
finger and the wrist Another plowed its
way across the arm just above the wrist,
while several Of them perforated the sleeve
of his coat Porter escaped without injury.
Three years ago Mr.. Walters bought a
home of five acres in the suburbs OF Belle
view for his family. Ten of his twenty
orange trees are bearing literally. One Is
twelve years old, and measures 8 feet in
circumference at the ground-515 feet fouI
| inches above. Ii was loaded at the time OF
the big freeze with 10000 superior oranges
Near by is tree of grape fruit, clever
| years old, within an inch of the same di-
mansions, now loaded with about 700 bunche:
with three or four punches of eighteen and
twenty in each. As the tree and it's fruit
exceeds anything of the kind ever seen in
that part Of the country, the, punches will
be in the Sub-Tropical Exposition at Jack
| sonville.
THE NEWS correspondent at Chipley
Fla, writes rs follows under date Of Sept
Quite Am excitement was created in oul
little city ON yesterday, when IL was ri
mored that Buck Cook, young man
the son Of g. w. Cook, our Mayor, was bit
ten by a mad dog. Upon investigation the
ruinor was found 10 he true. and Mr. Cook
badly bitten. In the evening while tasting
a stroll through the town with his compan
ions, the dog attacked them, biting Mr.
Cook and passing on. After biting Mr.
Cook and before he could be killed. he bil
two or three hogs, COW, and attempted :,
! bite another young man. Quite a number